Vince Hillierhttps://vince.ca/
Recent content on Vince HillierHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 17 May 2020 07:54:32 -0400Streaming Pandora with Pianobar on QubesOShttps://vince.ca/posts/streaming-pandora-with-pianobar-on-qubesos/
Sun, 17 May 2020 07:54:32 -0400https://vince.ca/posts/streaming-pandora-with-pianobar-on-qubesos/The other day Kris Nóva was broadcasting her effort to get pianobar working. Pianobar is a Pandora radio CLI application written in C.
Typically my day is filled with some lo-fi hip hop streamed from YouTube. But the constant ads and &ldquo;Video Paused. Click to continue&rdquo; prompts are quite annoying. The idea is to have some chill background music not something that requires constant petting throughout the day, when I found out about pianobar I had to get it going.Benchmarking file uploads with Locusthttps://vince.ca/posts/file-uploads-with-locustio/
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:45:10 -0500https://vince.ca/posts/file-uploads-with-locustio/I had to perform some functional load testing of some file upload features. The last time I played with load testing Jmeter was the incumbent, with an entire team dedicated to its usage. My first crack was to harness curl and launch a bunch of loops into the background. This worked well to generate load but offered little in terms of process control and reporting. To change the number of clients I had to rerun my wrappers with new variables.Intro to Linux passhttps://vince.ca/posts/intro-to-linux-pass/
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:45:10 -0500https://vince.ca/posts/intro-to-linux-pass/I&rsquo;ve been doing some migration and isolation work lately to reduce the attack surface in the event of a supply chain compromise. The original intention of this post was to document the process of switching from a single password store for all services to several password stores each with their own virtual machine, disk resources, as well as pgp keys and passphrases. Half way through that process I realized there should be some context for that, queue this post.Rss and Commentshttps://vince.ca/posts/rss-and-comments/
Sat, 15 Feb 2020 22:24:27 -0500https://vince.ca/posts/rss-and-comments/I enjoy posting content about things I find interesting. I also enjoy stepping outside of my echo chamber and hearing your thoughts, feedback, and adventures.
In that spirit, it&rsquo;s now easier to follow content I post with the new RSS feed. Additionally, comments have been enabled via Commento, the least invasive, privacy focused, open source commenting platform I could find.Eliminating 502 Proxy Errorshttps://vince.ca/posts/eliminating-502-proxy-errors/
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:01:15 -0500https://vince.ca/posts/eliminating-502-proxy-errors/While working on an infrastructure refresh and consolidation project for one of my clients they had a legacy archive of public data consisting of several hundred gigabytes. There are a couple of approaches to handle this, each with its advantages and disadvantages.
Decisions Move the data into the web container
Advantages Local data is easy to manage with standard tools Disadvantages Bloated containers Synchronization requirement for each container Cost Move the data into a central nfs server